Greater Lowell Oral History Collection
The Greater Lowell Oral History Collection is a compilation of oral history interviews from several oral history projects conducted by the Center for Lowell History, the Lowell National Historical Park, the Lowell Historical Society, the Library of Congress, as well as many other organizations that focus on the residents of the Greater Lowell, Massachusetts area, their culture, and their history.
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An oral history interview with Lowell, MA residents Paul Page and Donna Mailloux.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with former Laos American Association employee Steve Schmidt.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
An oral history interview with Brazilian immigrant and Lowell, MA resident Francisco Carvalho.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral...
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral...
Oral History Interview with John J. Leite, February 20, 2016 Biographical Note: Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1933; parents from Graciosa, Azores, immigrated to the U.S. ca. 1926; both parents worked in textile mills in Manchester and Lowell; father a loom fixer, mother a spinner; they settled permanently in Lowell ca. 1936; members of St. Anthony Catholic Church, they had three daughters and one son, John J. who was educated in Lowell’s public schools; his father was a trombonist who...
Topics: Memórias – Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community, Portuguese...
Topics: Memórias – Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community, Portuguese...
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Samkhann Khoeun.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Muriel Parsheghian.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Narin Sao.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), oral history, Mill Workers of Lowell-Southeast Asian Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), oral history, Mill Workers of Lowell-Southeast Asian Project
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Sylvia Contover.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Francisco Carvalho.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Oral History Interview with Dimas Espinola, October 19, 2017 Biographical Note: Born on the Azorean island of Terceira, in the village of Biscoitos, in 1950; Dimas Espinola immigrated with his family to the United States in the late 1960s, settling in Lowell’s “Back Central” (predominately Portuguese) neighborhood; his father, formerly a furniture maker in Biscoitos, obtained a job as a loom fixer in the Wannalancit Mills; his mother worked in a shoe factory; Mr. Espinola received his...
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Portugal, Portuguese, Memórias – Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese...
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Portugal, Portuguese, Memórias – Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese...
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant You Nuon.
Topics: oral history, Khmer Oral History Project I, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Khmer Oral History Project I, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Vietnamese immigrant Thong Phamduy.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Nyola Villancourt.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
An oral history interview conducted by Mehmed Ali with Cambodian immigrant Naren Heng.
Topics: oral history, Khmer Oral History Project I, Lowell (Mass.), cambodia
Topics: oral history, Khmer Oral History Project I, Lowell (Mass.), cambodia
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Sidney Liang.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Elmer Rynne.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant June Taing.
Topics: oral history, Pelham (N.H.), Khmer Oral History Project I
Topics: oral history, Pelham (N.H.), Khmer Oral History Project I
Greater Lowell Oral History Collection
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Mehmed Ali; Sarah Morrison; Chan Phetvixay
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An oral history interview with Laotian immigrant Thong Phetvixay.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
An oral history interview with an anonymous subject from Colombia.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Manuel Barros, Sr.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Cornelia Chiklis.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Greater Lowell Oral History Collection
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Craig Thomas; Yingchan Zhang; Christoph Strobel
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An oral history interview with Lowell, MA residents Barbara and Albert Bernstein.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
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Fabiane Kelley
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A collection of oral history interviews with Post-WWII immigrants living in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Topics: Lawrence--Massachusetts, oral history, immigration, umass lowell, uml
Topics: Lawrence--Massachusetts, oral history, immigration, umass lowell, uml
An oral history interview with former Laos American Association employee Steve Schmidt.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Oral history interview with former Indochinese Refugee Foundation employee Carol Keirstead.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Center for Asian American Studies Oral History Project, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Center for Asian American Studies Oral History Project, oral history
An oral history interview with Iranian immigrant and Lowell, MA resident Halleh Mahini.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
An oral history interview with John Massey about Southeast Asian Buddhism.
Topics: oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrants Sergeant Kuch and Vann Pen.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Irene R. Desmaris.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Oral history interview with Vietnamese immigrant Chuong Tran.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project II
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project II
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Sanith Sok.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Working People of Lowell Oral History Project--Southeast Asian...
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Working People of Lowell Oral History Project--Southeast Asian...
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Henry Pestana.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Burmese refugee and Lowell, MA resident Bawi Za Kham. Part of the “Their Stories: Lowell’s Youth and The Refugee Experience” series.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Their Stories: Lowell's Youth and The Refugee Experience, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Their Stories: Lowell's Youth and The Refugee Experience, oral history
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Maria Silva.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Kak Korng.
Topics: oral history, Khmer Oral History Project II, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Khmer Oral History Project II, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Manuel Barros, Jr.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Greater Lowell Oral History Collection
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Susan Thomson; Christoph Strobel; Yingchan Zhang
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An oral history interview with French Canadian Lowell, MA residents Muriel Paradis and Rolande Cloutier.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Quebec,...
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Quebec,...
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Narin Sao.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
An oral history interview with Mexican immigrant and Lowell, MA resident Margarita Zapata Turcotte.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident John Graham.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Samuel S. Crayton, Sr.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Oral history interview with Vietnamese immigrant Ahn Hoang Vu.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Greater Lowell Oral History Collection
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Christoph Strobel; Craig Thomas; Yingchan Zhang
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An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Ana Suarez.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Kannara Loeu.
Topics: oral history, Working People of Lowell Oral History Project, Working People of Lowell Oral History...
Topics: oral history, Working People of Lowell Oral History Project, Working People of Lowell Oral History...
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Anita Wilcox Lelacheur.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Greek-American Lowell resident George Chigas on his marriage to a Cambodian.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
An oral history interview with Ghanian immigrant and Lowell, MA resident Gordon Halm.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Margaret Finn.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview conducted by Michael Bell with Narong Hul.
Topics: oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Lowell (Mass.)
The second oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Henry DeSousa.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
The first oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Henry DeSousa.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, American Folklife Center Oral History Project, Portugal, Portuguese
An oral history interview with Laotian immigrants John Daranikone, Thongsouk Daranikone, and Nali Daranikone.
Topics: oral history, Laotian Secret War Exhibit, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Laotian Secret War Exhibit, Lowell (Mass.)
Oral history interview with the UMass Lowell Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Leslie Wong.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Center for Asian American Studies Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Center for Asian American Studies Oral History Project
An oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Pere Pen.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project I
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project I
Oral history interview with Laotian immigrant Kai Phontharaksa.
Topics: oral history, Laotian Secret War Exhibit, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Laotian Secret War Exhibit, Lowell (Mass.)
An interview with Cambodian immigrant Tooch Van.
Topics: oral history, oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again
Topics: oral history, oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again
Oral history interview with Cambodian immigrant Van Ly.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project II
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project II
An oral history interview with Laotian immigrant Ted Rasakham.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
An oral history interview conducted by Christoph Strobel with Cambodian immigrant Phala Chea.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An oral history interview with Blackstone, MA resident Spaulding Aldrich.
Topics: Massachusetts--Blackstone, Shifting Gears Project, oral history, umass lowell, uml
Topics: Massachusetts--Blackstone, Shifting Gears Project, oral history, umass lowell, uml
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Anne Ohlsen.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Vietnamese immigrant Tony Mai.
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
Topics: oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, Lowell (Mass.)
An interview with Cambodian immigrant Sovann-Thida Loeung.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project II
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Khmer Oral History Project II
An oral history interview with Portuguese immigrant and Lowell, MA resident Maria Cunha.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking...
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking...
An oral history interview with Joseph Antonaccio, husband of a Laotian immigrant, on the Southeast Asian community in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), American Folklife Center Oral History Project
An oral history interview with Laotian immigrant Blong Xiong.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Lucy Rivera.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Monk John Lang Syachaek.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Laotian Secret War Exhibit
An oral history with an anonymous subject from India.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Esther Alfano.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Edward Harley.
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
Topics: Textile industry--Massachusetts--Lowell, Lowell (Mass.)--History, Working People of Lowell Oral...
An oral history interview with Lowell, MA resident Francisca DeSousa.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, "After the Last Generation: Lowell's Textile Workers, 1958-1998,...
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), oral history, "After the Last Generation: Lowell's Textile Workers, 1958-1998,...
An oral history interview with Burmese refugee and Lowell, MA resident Bo Meh. Part of the “Their Stories: Lowell’s Youth and The Refugee Experience” series.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Burma, Myanmar, refugee, immigrant, oral history, umass lowell, uml, southeast...
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Burma, Myanmar, refugee, immigrant, oral history, umass lowell, uml, southeast...
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An oral history interview with Vietnamese immigrant Bryan Tran.
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again
Topics: oral history, Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again
An oral history interview with Ivorian immigrant and Lowell, MA resident Emile Tabea.
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
Topics: Lowell (Mass.), Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, oral history
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The Greater Lowell Oral History Collection is a compilation of oral history interviews from several oral history projects conducted by the Center for Lowell History, the Lowell National Historical Park, the Lowell Historical Society, the Library of Congress, as well as many other organizations that focus on the residents of the Greater Lowell, Massachusetts area, their culture, and their history.Sub-collections:
- After the Last Generation: Lowell's Textile Workers, 1958-1998, Part I
- After the Last Generation: Lowell's Textile Workers, 1958-1998, Part II
- American Folklife Center Oral History Project
- Center for Asian American Studies Oral History Project
- Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again
- Khmer Oral History Project I
- Khmer Oral History Project II
- Laotian Secret War Exhibit
- Lowell Historical Society Oral History Project II
- Memórias – Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
- Mill Workers of Lowell-Southeast Asian Project
- Nursing Collection Oral History Collection
- Shifting Gears Project
- Their Stories: Lowell's Youth and The Refugee Experience
- Working People of Lowell Oral History Project
- Working People of Lowell Oral History Project--Southeast Asian Project
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